The Crown Prosecution Service is to prosecute The Spectator magazine over an opinion column published during the Stephen Lawrence murder trial last year.
The notice to prosecute is the first since the CPS published guidelines that called for prosecutors to assess whether the public interest outweighed the overall criminality in cases affecting the media. Attorney general Dominic Grieve referred the article, by Rod Liddle (pictured), to the CPS in November to decide whether reporting restrictions in place at the time had been breached.
Solicitors in Sevenoaks
